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Part five is just around the corner so I felt the inspired to write something fun before the Giorno takes over the world! Just a personal note before we start.. I have not been in the right mental space for the past couple of months, hence the lack of activity here. Finishing school at the beginning of the year, then travelling the world for a few weeks after, coming back home to transition into the "work force," missing out on life changing opportunities from not checking my emails, and dealing with a lot of other young-adult preoccupations was more intense mentally than I thought it would be. But I'm in a much better head space now after sorting things out, and surprisingly very much thankful for finding a way to navigate those rough waters; it's experiences like these that make us all more resilient and I'm appreciative for that.Vento Aureo is not too far away so I thought I would list a couple of my favourite stands just from part three and part four. Not saying these are the best of the bests out of Araki's creations, but they are my personal favourites, which could deviate from your own personal tastes.

So I am back from the dead and trying to be active on my blog again. Had to take a few month off to deal with some personal affairs, but it's all good now. I'll be doing another episodic review series from the batch of spring 2018 anime, this time on Piano no Mori. I have decided to go forward with reviewing this because I am a "pianist" myself after my parents invested thousands for me to learn the instrument, so why not follow an anime that is based on piano playing.

It's the first day of the New Year.. so Happy New Year! Let's get the generics out of the way, by me wishing everyone a prosperous 2018, with lots of happiness, joy, and plenty laughter. Whatever your goals and dreams are, I honestly wish nothing but luck for those goals to be obtained this year. Now back to anime, 2017 was a decent year for anime, lots of hyped series, a select handful of gems, and a good amount of not so hot adaptations. I guess this has been an annual tradition for me as I sum up the year with my favourite anime from 2017, so I hope you enjoy. As usual, this list is just my personal preference - feel free to let me know if you have discrepancies.

Alas, Ballroom e Youkoso concludes, and what an amazing conclusion at that. The episode was filled with emotion, spectacular animation, a perfect selection of songs from the soundtrack, and a lot of unique surprises. The episode was a salute to Tatara and his prosperous accomplishments he made in a year of practicing competitive ballroom dancing. As a Ballroom e Youkoso fan, Production I.G went above and beyond my expectations of what I expected from the finale.

Second. Last. Episode. And it was actually pretty decent! Finally Chinatsu and Tatara found their groove, and it looks like they for sure are going to takedown Kugimiya; well they better take him down or else everyone's going to be extra salty after watching the last episode.

We're almost at the finish line with Ballroom e Youkoso, just two more episodes remaining. To my surprise it was a Kugimiya episode, which was a decent break from the Tournament. I'm not shying away that Kugimiya is my least favourite character; originally it was the pre-becoming best friends with Tatara version of Gaju, but now it's Kugimiya.

Very late upload with this post, in the midst of exam chaos so I thought I'd take a break and pen my thoughts down on episode 21. I wanted to like this episode, I really did. But I was not feeling that fervor I had the for this episode like I did for the last 20.